If anyone has been keeping track, my Generation Try Girl income history has been brief and varied, but from what I’ve learned this month “what you put in is what you get out.” In my first three weeks of this blog, I’d made over $50. This was a result of hard work, or I should say harder work than I’ve been putting in lately. At the end of March, I’d written a total of 11 well constructed/thoughtful posts ,many geared towards making income. Now, at the end of May, I’ve published a total of just six posts. And two of them were monthly reports. So I’m not shocked by my earnings of around $16 this month. But hey! That $16 is still better than the comparable 30 cents of last month. (Which I didn’t even bother to write about!) And I think that is because this month, I did in fact put in that extra little bit of effort that my “April” was lacking.

If I’ve learned anything in the many 25 years of life, its that I’m most successful when I am consistent and apply effort to the task at hand. The other key factor of success, of course, is goal setting and tracking my progress. So, without further ado, my income report for May 2017, and my goals going into June!

Not gonna lie, I almost didn’t write this “first month of blogging” monthly report. My goal was to publish it by April 1st. But hen I got distracted by “BUT MAYBE I SHOULD WRITE AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY FACT POST,” which I started but never finished. Because honestly there are not that many April Fool’s facts. And all of my sources said the exact same things. And I don’t want my blogging to become copy and paste. ANYWAYS, when I missed my deadline I was like “Well, I missed it. I’m just not gonna write it.”

As the days went on in the month, I started to even think “Hey, in fact maybe I’ll never write again! I already failed anyway!” It was my inner perfectionist/sloth speaking. In my head I thought I couldn’t write another post before I wrote this one, even though I had no desire to write this one at the time. Finally, I kicked that thought away and wrote something else that I was actually excited about — a fun Easter craft I got to make at work– and was again motivated suddenly to write again! The next day, I sat outside with my cat and got in my writer zone, and what you have is my full personal monthly review for my blog, as well as my goal’s for next month!